This past weekend I spent the entire weekend making games at the SF Indie Game Jam. It was a ton of fun, and I really enjoyed the people I was working with. I hope they thought I was as good to work with as I thought they were. I was especially impressed with Frank, one of the developers on the team. To find out more about what went on at the game jam look at my post on caduo.com.
Yesterday I played a really good set of games of squash with Nima. He had just eaten and had played a couple hours of volleyball earlier that day. Even with those extenuating circumstances he won the first game, and nearly got me on all the subsequent games. The third game was especially close, with us playing to nearly 15 in decision points before I was able to take it. Him being tired and full is certainly what made the difference. He wasn’t positioning himself nearly as well as he normally does, so I was able to get a lot more kill shots than would normally be expected. I look forward to next week when we are on more equal footing, and I can make it to games night.
Last night I gave Steph her birthday present of a Paint Nite at Willow Street Pizza in Saratoga. I was doing it as a surprise, and she was guessing what it would be until she saw the canvases in the window of the restaurant. She really enjoyed it, but I’m not sure she liked the surprise aspect. The food and drink was good, and we both decided not to just paint the basic painting. The painting that was taught was more or less what you see below, but the trees in the background weren’t given the red leaves. I also added in a bit of a sun ray coming into what I made to be a clearing. Steph and I were doing really well compared to most of the rest of the class. I also noticed that there were 3 men and 27 women at the paint nite. The painting on the left is mine and the painting on the right is Steph’s.
The morning I was going to fly back I packed everything up and waited for Jeff to come get me. We went to lunch at Moe’s and then he dropped me off at the place he gets haircuts. They gave me a good cut and I then went to the close-by Marta station. The ride to the airport and the flight back were uneventful, except that I went through the battery on my iPhone and laptop. When I got back to SFO I took Bart to Caltrain and grabbed some food at Gyros Gyros as Steph came to pick me up. We stopped by my place to say hi to the kitties and then went back to Beachhead.
Jeff took me to Yeah! Burger for dinner on Sunday since Leslie couldn’t join us. We did an order to go since I was planning on meeting up with Derick at 8pm and we only had an hour to get the food and get back. The meat and produce were really well documented for where they came from, and most of it was local farms. There was a chalkboard saying which farm each type of meat had come from. I really like that kind of food transparency. It is one of the philosophical things I’ve been working through. Jeff took great care of me throughout the week. I know he felt bad about having me come out there, but I think he had a relaxing time. I hope it is what he needed.
I hung out with Derick at Famous after picking up dinner with Jeff. I ate the Yeah! burger on the walk from Jeff’s place to Famous Pub. Derick and I talked about all sorts of stuff, mainly just catching up on life. I brought up some of the philosophical questions I have been struggling with lately. We had a few beers and split some fries with amazing toppings.
Friday night Jeff made a fantastic pizza. It was have pesto with mushroom and broccoli, and half pimento cheese with bacon. It was amazingly tasty. We played games until about midnight, then I stayed up working for a while on getting up the Beta to CloudBurst. The next day we didn’t do much besides watch the GT game and play video games. He introduced me to DOTA 2 and we lost pretty badly. I was absolutely terrible. We also played a lot more GTA V. We stayed up until about 2am playing the GTA V. Jeff made a delicious cauliflower casserole with bacon. I ate far to much of it. Sunday morning we did pretty much the same, playing GTA V and watching the Falcons game. We are planning to go to Taco Bell for dinner to get all sorts of Doritos tacos.
I got up early, packed up, and headed out to the airport this morning. I nearly forgot my keys, but luckily grabbed them right before leaving. Once I got to Atlanta, I hopped on Marta with the card Mom gave me and went up to Lindbergh station to wait for Jeff. He came to get me, and we went on some errands. We first went by The Dump, which is a place that sells furniture that other places couldn’t sell. Then we went by GameStop and Jimmy John’s. I got a sandwich and Jeff got Grand Theft Auto V. The game is interesting and we are taking turns playing it.
Dad cooked steaks for dinner, and Kim was able to join us before she headed off to her Spanish movie. It was a really simple but nice dinner of steak and broccoli. I must admit that there has been a lot more meat than I’m used to being served since I got back. I think that is mostly due to my mom’s low carb diet.
After dinner my dad and I tried to start a fire with just the wooden dowel and block. We managed to get a good sized coal going, but the kindling that we were using wasn’t good enough to make a fire with. He is going to find some better kindling for next time we are together (probably Christmas) and we can try it out then. I am interested to know where Christmas will be this year. Either Memphis or Atlanta, and I’m hoping for Atlanta.
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